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CASE STUDIES

Find out what past assistants have said about their experiences.

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GERMANY
Heather is currently studying in her final year at the University of Exeter and was an English Language Assistant last year in the town of Ludwigshafen-Edigheim (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany.
Foreign Language Assistant teaching at a school in Hounslow, UK © Frank Noon
 CHINA

Sarah Gallagher is an English Language Assistant at Jiujiang Junior Middle School in Foshan (not far from Guangzhou).

Chinese statue inside Buddhist temple - Credit Dominic Regester
FRANCE

Catherine was studying English Literature and French at the University of Exeter and was an English Language Assistant at a school in Orleans, France.

Female language assistant with pupil in class - Credit Nicolette Stoddart
 MEXICO
Kate Joyce studied French and Spanish at the University of Edinburgh and was an English Language Assistant in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Foreign Language Assistant teaching at a school in Hounslow, UK © Frank Noon
CHILE
Lloyd Edmondson was studying French and Spanish at the University of Leeds and spent a year in Vina del Mar, Chile
Virgin Mary Santiago Chile - Credit Doug Pearce
 SPAIN
Kate was studying for a degree in History and Spanish at the University of Manchester.  She was an English Language Assistant in Pamplona, Navarra.
British Council Madrid - Credit Jestico and Whites

Austria: David Elphinstone, Lizi Milne, Nicholas Barton, Sarah Clarke, various, Gemma Needham, Heather Tyrer, Miriam Orridge, Rachel Chonka, Sophie Allen

Belgium: Ryan Stephens, Sarah Ennis

Canada: Amy Tattersall, Naomi Blight, Russell Atkins, Meghan Ball, Siobhann Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth McMillan, Andrew Vivian, Laura Cragg, Jenn Bartlett

Italy: Sophie Fuller, Zoe Blake

Latin America (Other): Camilla Shaw (Argentina), Louise Coo (Argentina), Tom Bradley (Argentina), Mark Webster (Argentina); Andrew Nimmo (Colombia), Laura Sedgley (Colombia), Matthew Margetts (Colombia), William Massa (Colombia), Elizabeth Chadwick (Colombia), Flora Allison (Colombia), Hugh Billane (Ecuador), Adrian McKernan (Ecuador), Elizabeth Brook (Ecuador), Lucy-Claire Freeman (Paraguay), Rachel Smith (Paraguay), Sam Reeves (Paraguay), Sarah McGregor (Paraguay), Stuart Champion (Venezuela); Riaghnach Loughran (Venezuela),
Russia: Michael Stott, Steffan Knutson, John Roberts
Senegal: Sean Flower, Farzana Norren
Switzerland: Nicola Chillingworth

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